Given I bought more furbies than can ever be said to be healthy, it was time to customise the second one.
I didn’t want to do a long furby this time. But I did still have all the innards of the first furby from taking it apart, and this plus all the innards from the second furby meant I had a lot of wires, cogs, wheels, chips, and plastic bits.
I really didn’t plan this one at all and noodles away with it. I painted it green and that was the point when I started gluing on all the bits and pieces. I had to go through all the storage boxes to find the glue gun at this point – had never actually used a glue gun before! I also stuck it’s feet and tail back on and painted those green. At this point, having not disassembled it as much as the other furby, I knew I couldn’t get in from behind and do the eyes, but I was going a bit YOLO and thought I’d see what happened as I went.
Naked and green The green under paint
I painted the furby in a metallic bronze acrylic paint and it sat like that for quite some time as it didn’t look bad but it was lacking. After a bit i started painting all the crevices in black and i also watered down some black an washed it over the furby. This is where model painters acrylic might have been better, but i just used the paint i had.
My furby is crying
When this was dry, i painted the eyes in, and then gave them a thin coat of uv resin for the shine. I gave the mouth also a shine, and I dry brushed on white highlights and brightened it up here and there and darkened it up here and there. Voila. Steampunk furby!
Detail of eyes showing drying brushing Natural furby habitat